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Australian PM says police raids follow IS linked beheading plot

Police talk outside a house that was involved in pre-dawn raids in the western Sydney suburb of Guilford September 18, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/David Gray

Sydney; Australia: Militants connected with radical group Islamic State were planning to behead a member of the public in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, after hundreds of police raided homes in a sweeping counter-terrorism operation.

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